US914761A - Package-clasp. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Mar. 9, 1909.

witnesses Mud Attorneys TIMOTHY SMITH, OF HOWELL, MICHIGAN.

PACKAGE-CLASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 9, 1909.

Application filed April 10, 1908. Serial No. $26,363.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Howell, county of Livingston, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Package-Clasps, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to package clasps.

it has for its object a clasp or buckle adapted to be used for the quick and secure binding together of bundles, and in the form shown in the drawings is especially adapted for the purpose of securing together bundles of letters, and may be used to advantage for the purpose of securely holding letters during the distribution by local postmen.

in the drawings :F igure 1, is a perspective view of the buckle and strap. Fig. 2, shows the clasp in connection with a bundle of papers.

The main or body part of the buckle consists of a member 1 provided with a cross bar 2, to which a strap may be secured, and with ears 3 and at to which the ends of a forked tongue 5 are pivotally engaged. The forks of the tongue 5 join and terminate in a tongue point 6 adapted to take through a hole 7 in the strap. The fork spreads immediately adjacent to the tongue point to a width sufficient to allow the thread of the strap to pass easily through between the fork members and 5 and when the strap is drawn through the opening between the forked members, a hole 7 is engaged over the tongue point. The tongue and the strap are then turned in to bring the tongue slightly beyond a parallel relation with the body 8 of the buckle, with the ears 3 and at and the pivotal points of the tongue somewhat farther removed from the body member than the extreme tongue point is distant therefrom, so that when the buckle tongue is turned down in the position shown in Fig. 2, the strain of the strap tends to draw the tongue point down against the body 8 of the buckle, and tends to hold the buckle in its closed relation, and holds the buckle tongue securely in its engaging connection with the strap. The end of the strap is passed through the loop or billet 9, and the buckle cannot now be accidentally disengaged. Preferably the body 8 of the buckle is of a length to reach across the bundle to be secured. This is not, however, absolutely essential, as the buckle and strap will secure with reasonable safety packages that are considerably wider than the length of the buckle body.

What I claim is .1. Jr buckle for securing packages, having in combination a body part, a strap secured to one end thereof, and a terminally pointed forked tongue between whose sides the strap is adapted to pass pivotally connected to the otner end of the body part, adapted, when swung to a position of approximate parallelism with said body part, to engage through perforated portions of the strap with its pointed end, and to be swung by the pull of the strap more closely against said body part, substantially as described.

2. A package clasp, comprising a relatively flat body portion having upwardly projecting shoulders at one end thereof, a strap s cured at one end to the opposite end of said body poition, and a forked tongue having a pointed end pivotally connected with said shoulders, between whose side members the strap is adapted to pass and to be engaged by the pointed end thereof when the free end of the same is swung to a position of substantial parallelism with re spect to the body portion, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

TIMOTHY SMITH.

Witnesses:

V. J. LARKIN, lViLLIS L. Lyons.

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